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All right, let us welcome a man who had an amazing start to 2021.

In fact, there are many people out there who believe that this victory was one of the all-time

great performances in UFC history when he defeated Calvin Cater via a unanimous decision

last month. First UFC main event on ABC, what a phenomenal effort from the former UFC

Featherweight Champion of the world, Max Blessed Holloway, who is kind enough to join us right now.

Max, how are you, man?

I'm doing good, Blessed Michael.

I'm doing great. So there's one thing I wanted to ask you right off the bat, Max, and first off,

congratulations on the win. We'll get into the fight more in a moment. But I'm kind of an awe,

by the way, you can sort of separate yourself from Max Holloway, the fighter, and go do, like,

Max Holloway, the guy, and do it so quickly because you go out there and you have this incredible

performance and normally fighters sort of enjoy the limelight after a win like that. They celebrate it.

You do your duties, you have your press conference after the fight, and that's right back to Max,

the dad, the fiance, the gamer, the guy, and you do it so effortlessly when a lot of fighters

aren't able to do that. So how have you, like, is this something you've always been able to do or

is this something you learn to do along the way? I mean, I've been fighting style 16. I've been

into UFC since I was 20. I mean, I'm nine-year vet. I'm old as shit, man. I was keeping up on me,

but now I'll jump to the side. You gotta learn how to separate it. You gotta learn how to separate.

Life is about balance. I don't know if you believe in that kind of stuff, but life is about balance.

You gotta be balanced. If you put in too much one thing on one side and stuff start getting

unbalanced. If you start doing here and then start getting unbalanced, it's like, you just want

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